We visit Carthago

Today was excursion-day! Caro and Daniel took us to Carthago. We went there by bus which wasn�t really interesting because you don�t see much of the country except the highway� but when we reached our destination, it was awesome!
As we told you before Carthago nowadays is a suburb of tunis, the Tunisian capital� Originally it was the center of the ancient Carthaginian civilisation but it was totally destroyed by the romans in 202 BC. Caesar build a new city on the same place which soon became an important location for the Romans in Africa� Nearly everything you can see today was therefore build during the roman period�
We visited the �Les thermes d�Antonin� which was a Roman bath or thermae� but enough of explaining, here are our pictures:

 

 Here we are siting on an ancient column

 In the back you see one of the hallways...

  The big stone in the back used to be a wall, more than 2000 years ago

Another column

 And another one...

This is us sitting on a roman bench 

 And here you can see a piece of the romans sanitation...

After that we went to the Museum of Karthago. From its Forecourt we had a wonderful view above tunis! (it was veery windy sotaking pictures was kind of a near-death-experience ;) ) 

In this picture you were supposed to see the harbour of tunis... (well obviously you can't)

But during the carthagian area, the harbour had the form of a circle...

 

 Inside the museum we went to see very old mosaics... Those in the picture are more than 2000 years old!

 After this educational trip, we took a break... :-)